Fox News and Newsmax TV are changing their tunes about voter fraud coverage after Smartmatic and Dominion raised the prospect of legal action for reporting what they said was false information about them.
The companies deny several statements made about them, and there is no evidence any voting system switched or deleted votes in the 2020 election.
Last weekend, Fox Business aired a segment in the form of a question-and-answer session between an offscreen voice and Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert at the nonpartisan Open-Source Election Technology Institute.
“I have not seen any evidence that Smartmatic software was used to delete, change or alter anything related to vote tabulations,” Perez said.
Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani has falsely claimed that Smartmatic was founded in Venezuela by former dictator Hugo Chavez for the goal of fixing elections. Smartmatic was started in Florida in 2000.
Asked Monday about the segments, Smartmatic’s lawyer, J. Erik Connolly, said the company “cannot comment on the recent broadcast by Fox News due to potential litigation.”
Newsmax said there were “several facts our viewers and readers should be aware of,” among them the lack of a business relationship between the two companies or that Dominion had any ownership relationship with George Soros, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others.
